episode_0023
by admin“The morning of the second week has dawned. Have you all adapted well to life in Eden over the past week?”
A pleasant morning with bright sunlight shining warmly into the classroom.
Professor Caria, standing at the teacher’s table, began the assembly for Monday of the second week.
“As first-year cadets at Eden are eligible for the free major year, I believe that each of you will be choosing to take a variety of courses.”
Looking at the faces of the cadets around me, I saw a mix of cadets smiling and those with slightly wrinkled expressions.
Cadets with bad expressions probably failed to sign up for classes, or even if they succeeded, their schedules were ruined.
“Everyone probably already knows this because it is all listed on the academic schedule, but I will still notify you just in case.”
Professor Caria clapped her hands and drew the attention of the cadets sitting on her.
Several of the cadets who had been dozing off shivered and looked at the teacher’s table with dreamy eyes.
“Next week, there will be regular dungeon attack practice from Monday to Friday.”
Dungeon attack.
As the basis of the Hunter profession is to contribute to world peace by conquering dungeons beyond the gate, this is a schedule that is carried out periodically in Eden.
The purpose of Eden’s establishment is to train excellent hunters.
Therefore, most of Eden’s academic schedule is a practical curriculum designed to help current cadets grow into hunters.
“There are several goals, but the most common ones are clearing a level 4 dungeon and defeating the dungeon lord that has arisen inside. The attack group consisted of four or five cadets, taking into account their entrance scores and specialty areas.”
Level 4 dungeons are dungeons that professional hunters often attack alone.
In other words, considering the dungeon’s difficulty itself, Eden’s Cadets can also be easily conquered through party play.
Assuming a group of 5 people, I imagined the members of a standard party play.
‘Are there a tanker, two dealers, and two supports to take charge of the vanguard?’
Although it varies depending on the structure of the dungeon or the monsters you are dealing with, usually tanks, dealers, and supports should all be balanced.
Still, it is said that the faculty members organized the groups themselves. I don’t necessarily need to worry about the balance of the attack group.
And above all, most of the information about level 4 dungeons has been made public for a long time.
Eden’s cadets are geniuses from around the world, so of course they would know this as they receive elite training, and as a ranked player, I also know that information.
The threat of dungeons that pushed humanity to the brink of destruction during the cataclysm has lost much of its ferocity in the present.
In fact, the words farm and farming, which are terms used only in games, are being used openly in the hunter industry.
The meaning also matches the commonly known meaning. The practice of clearing dungeons repeatedly to obtain monster materials and various benefits is called farming, and dungeons where such farming is possible are called farming.
Rather than completely closing down the dungeon that has been completed, the dungeon is left on purpose to function as a kind of fish farm.
“The strategy team formation will be revealed this Friday. Until then, please study hard and sharpen your skills for the sake of future team members.”
That’s how the morning assembly ended.
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The morning lectures that followed the morning assembly were entirely filled with lectures on required subjects.
It’s a natural thing. Because the dungeon attack in week 3 is not a field trip, but a practice session.
The dungeon strategy practice is literally a schedule in which cadets have to solve actual dungeons that occurred on the Australian continent.
Of course, problems big or small can arise, and the possibility of an emergency situation occurring during an attack cannot be overlooked.
Of course, there are many valuable lectures.
Among them, magic science and basic medical science were important.
The monsterology lecture allows you to acquire [Monster Special Attack], a passive skill that provides various advantages when fighting against monsters in the game.
If you learn just one basic medical science, you can acquire [medical magic] that can be used over and over again in various areas.
Of course, skills were not simply learned by attending lectures.
At least that was the case in the game, but in reality it wasn’t that easy.
Skills are nothing more than a chunk of knowledge and experience. The skills and knowledge a person has acquired are standardized into a single framework.
It is similar to creating a finished tomato spaghetti recipe by combining techniques such as how to make tomato sauce and how to boil noodles.
So I shook my head. I studied so hard that I thought my head would explode.
It was not an easy task because Mamonology was a biology class and Basic Medical Science, as the name suggests, was a medical class.
It was a very difficult class for me, who had an average GPA of 3.4 in high school.
However, I didn’t just roll my head.
Did I tell you to exercise in a balanced way? Although the meaning may be slightly different, I also spent time in a similar way.
In the morning, I exercised my brain while listening to lectures, and in the afternoon, I exercised my body while sparring with Professor Caria.
Professor Caria even put other weapons into my hands while teaching me spearmanship.
I learned all kinds of weapons, including swords, swords, daggers, hammers, axes, whips, bows, and maces.
What did they say? Even if you can’t handle all weapons at a high level, you should know how to block and deal with each weapon.
So, I learned swords and blunt weapons on Monday, and soft weapons and projectile weapons on Tuesday.
Although there was no weapon that was particularly talented enough to stand out in a short period of time, the training had its own effect.
It was a day when I was able to personally experience why Professor Caria was called by the cool nickname, Weapon Master.
And time passed and it became Thursday.
“Monsters are basically no different from wild beasts enhanced with magical power.”
『Monster Structure』 class, a required subject taken by all cadets from 1st to 4th year.
This is a course I am taking diligently to acquire the [Monster Special Attack] skill.
Perhaps because conquering a dungeon infested with monsters was scheduled for next week, the cadets’ concentration was surprisingly strong.
“Therefore, in order to hunt monsters more safely and efficiently, you need to know their weaknesses.”
A professor who stands at a lecture table and continues his lecture as if giving a speech.
Roman Kelia.
He is an ill-fated professor who graduated from Eden in the past and obtained the qualifications of a hunter, but lost the motivation he had become friends with in a dungeon where unidentified monsters lurked at the time.
After the death of his classmate, Professor Roman, who believed that the lack of information about an unidentified monster was the cause of the accident, pursued the path of a researcher rather than a hunter.
A person who studied various monsters, and sometimes went into dungeons to collect samples using the qualifications of a hunter he acquired in Eden, and eventually analyzed all the weaknesses of the monsters that took away their motivation.
He is a mad researcher who single-handedly analyzed and systematized 11% of the species of monsters that appeared in this world.
“Monsters’ weaknesses can be broadly divided into four categories.”
Regional weaknesses, magical weaknesses, ecological weaknesses, environmental weaknesses.
Professor Roman wrote down four types of weaknesses on the blackboard and began explaining each weakness.
“Segmental weaknesses are the most common weaknesses in living things. This is where structural vulnerabilities occur, such as the softness of the leather and the skeleton and joints.”
I diligently scribbled with a smart pen on the screen of the tablet I had brought with me, taking notes on the lecture content.
Taking advantage of the time I had from college life before being possessed, I also recorded it so that I could review it at any time.
“Magical weaknesses are when a person is vulnerable to certain magical properties or effects, while environmental weaknesses are mainly related to temperature and food.”
Professor Roman explained while creating a small fireball or sparks over his hand.
This part is a realistic explanation of the matchmaking system, which is often referred to as rock, paper, scissors.
When I was halfway through writing, Professor Roman’s next explanation began.
“Ecological weaknesses are closely related to the biological structure of the monster in question. It is convenient to think of cold-blooded animals and warm-blooded animals. Monsters that form a group rarely have social aspects such as bonds among their weaknesses.”
I felt a slight chill in his voice as he continued the lecture without stopping, like a rapid-fire gun.
This may be because the monsters that killed his classmate were monsters that moved in groups.
In the story I cleared through a side quest, I still vividly remember Professor Roman attacking Indigno, a group-type monster that took the life of a classmate.
Although he was a genius, he was also a researcher who did not forget his resentment and sublimated it into madness.
Professor Roman persistently studied and deciphered the monster’s ecology and habits, and eventually completed a result worthy of being called a ‘strategy book’.
As a Spaniard, he named the monster that took his classmate’s life Indigno, and finally avenged his classmate.
Considering that indigno means worthlessness and meanness in Professor Roman’s native Spanish, Spanish, we can see how much he gnashed his teeth and devoted himself to research.
“… This is the behavior of monsters that mainly appear in the level 4 dungeons you will conquer.”
“?”
“This concludes the lecture.”
While I was thinking about something else for a moment, the lecture was over.
I broke into a cold sweat for a moment, but fortunately the tablet’s recording function was working properly.
The morning lecture just ended with ‘Monster Structure’, so let’s eat lunch and prepare for the major lecture in the afternoon.
I stood up and turned off the recording function on my tablet.
“Wait a minute!”
However, as if waiting for me to wake up, a cadet suddenly shouted loudly, attracting the attention of everyone in the classroom.
A cadet who was about to leave the classroom, a cadet who was still sitting and taking notes, and even Professor Roman who had just taken a step away from the lecture table.
Everyone’s attention was focused on the cadet. My gaze was no exception.
“Professor, please allow the use of the second training center.”
“… Is it personal training?”
Professor Roman asked the cadet who caught his attention with a disapproving gaze if it was for personal training.
But when I saw the cadet’s face, my expression became stiff.
“No.”
Anxiety overtook me. My intuition warned me that that cadet was going to cause something serious.
That was natural.
“I request a sparring match with the top student in this classroom!”
Dark blue hair and narrow eyes hiding venomous green eyes.
The cadet, who had a suspicious appearance even at first glance, was someone that no user of could recognize.
‘No, this bastard?’
Hermod Beowulf.
He mainly appears in the main story and various sub-stories, and is a character who always moves for his own pleasure and causes various incidents and accidents.
Not only the player, but even the main and supporting actors in the scenario give trouble at least once.
Who did that? The person you like is just a star.
A true superstar drives everyone crazy.
Perhaps the word was created for Hermod.
When it appeared, all the character fandoms in the community went crazy at the same time.
I have never seen such a perfect superstar.
“… Because he is the top student. It’s only week 2, have you already found it?”
Professor Roman, whose disapproving gaze was soon replaced by interest and anticipation, asked Hermod.
And most likely, that guy will definitely answer.
This is the answer that all the cadets who are still looking at them with anticipation are hoping for.
“Yes. I, Hermod Beowulf, challenge senior student Seong Yu-jin to spar!”
The best seed of Eden.
Hermod’s nickname, which I had forgotten, came to mind.
But at the same time, I smiled bitterly when I heard that declaration of war.
In this situation, refusing to spar will only raise suspicions further.
So let’s face it. I move according to the will of Buntang, who created a situation where I have no choice but to accept, but take my purpose.
“I will accept it.”
I wonder if this is how the professor felt when he received an application from a graduate student for a master’s or doctoral program.
Since the test subject rolled in on its own, it should be used sparingly.
The design of the barrier armament technique has only been completed, and it has not yet been tested in practice.
“I will accept Cadet Hermod’s sparring.”
That poor Buntang sparred with me without even realizing it.
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